“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.” LittlesBitsEffortProgressLittle BitExcellenceAverageProportionProgression Author:Paul J. Meyer
“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.” YearsLittlesTwoKidsParentSoundDogAverageIncomeHouseholdFenceNew OrleansWorking Parents Author:Anthony Mackie
“Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.” LittlesTermWealthPovertyAverageSignificantIncomeAcknowledgeEconomistWealth And Poverty Author:Rowan Williams
“The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.” LittlesPersonsDifferentJobsCoursesLifetimeAverageEightAverage PersonDifferent Jobs Author:Seth MacFarlane
“One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have little reservation about killing the unborn, while the average Conservative feels it is better to wait until after they are born before we kill them.” FeelsShouldLittlesAmericaPoliticsWaitingBornDifferencesShould HaveKillingAverageConservativeUnbornReservations Author:Derek R. Audette
“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.” KnowsMenLittlesEnoughActionDesirePowerfulRichInstitutionsPropertyInstinctAverageMotiveConsumerismPersistentPrivate LifePrivate PropertyOverconsumptionPlunderAverage ManHoardingSatiety Book:Outspoken essays Source: Outspoken essays
“I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?” LooksLittlesPersonsFormValuesGirlDecisionOpinionAngryAverageChastityAverage Person Book:Letters to Susan Source: Letters to Susan
“I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.” MenWantLittlesDifferentHardTodayGuyCommonHard WorkTomorrowDisciplineCommitmentAverageWrestlingCommon ManBetter Tomorrow Author:Jay Robinson
“I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.” ThinkingInspirationalLittlesMotivationalBitsLittle BitAverageSuperstar Author:Hank Aaron
“It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.” LittlesIndividualCommonQualityPiecesResearchImpactAverageFactorsScoreJudgedJournalPublish Author:Randy Schekman
“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.” ShouldMindLittlesHas BeensWholeBrainQuietBlameFaultsAverageExcuseSuperiorsGreat Minds Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.” LittlesLongHomeBeliefMillionsTaughtPlanetsEssentialsMajorsImportanceSpeciesAverageCornersAstronomyDefinedBiologyIngredientsCosmicRetreatGalaxyInitialsTaught UsGeologyGod ImageImmensity Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History